Ethical Considerations

Texto & Contexto Enfermagem follows the Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) (http://publicationethics.org/).

Manuscripts resulting from research involving human subjects should indicate whether the procedures followed the Declaration of Helsinki (1964, reformulated in 1975, 1983, 1989, 1996, 2000, 2004 and 2008), in addition to complying with specific legislation (if any) of the country in question where the research was carried out. All study participants must have signed an Informed Consent Form. This means that any individual participants in research studies have the right to decide to participate or not, and what happens to the identifiable personal data after data collection. It includes all type of data, to what they have said during a study, interview or a focus groups as well as to any photograph that may be taken.

 

The manuscripts should aim at including representative human populations (gender, age and ethnicity) according to these recommendations. The terms sex and gender must be used properly. For original articles resulting from research conducted in Brazil, they should comply with the Resolution No. 466, of December 12, 2012, and Resolution No 516, of July 03, 2016 of the National Health Council. When dealing with research results, authors must attach a copy of the approval issued by the Research Ethics Committee and mention the project approval number by the Committee in the title page and, for Brazilian manuscripts, the Certificate of Presentation for Ethical Consideration (CAAE). It is not necessary to include the Resolution as a reference of the manuscript.

In order to ensure that the manuscripts submitted by members of Texto & Contexto Editorial Board are reviewed without bias, they undergo a blind evaluation by the editors on the ScholarOne system. Likewise, manuscripts by authors linked to UFSC are sent to the external reviewers for a blind and bias-free evaluation.

 

Process for the identification and treatment of research misconduct allegations

The editorial practice for cases of scientific misconduct (plagiarism, self-plagiarism, data falsification or fabrication, improper use of references or citations, duplicity, and authorship dispute, among others) follows the Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors do Committee on Publication Ethics(COPE) (http://publicationethics.org/).

Verification of the text authenticity is performed through the application of the CrossRef Similarity Check - iThenticate software. Academic plagiarism, at any level, is a crime. It violates Brazilian law in article 184 of the Criminal Code, and article 7, third paragraph, of Law 9.610, of February 19, 1998, which regulates copyright, constituting civil and criminal matters.

 

Corrections, Retractions, Republications, and Manuscript Version Control

The Texto & Contexto Enfermagem Journal use the Recommendations of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) to best practices and ethical standards for the conduct, reporting, editing, and publication of scholarly work in medical journals.

Honest errors are a part of science and publishing and require publication of a correction when they are detected. Errors serious enough to invalidate a paper's results and conclusions may require retraction. When scientific misconduct is alleged, or concerns are otherwise raised about the conduct or integrity of work described in submitted or published papers, the editor will initiate appropriate procedures following the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines( http://publicationethics.org/resources/flowcharts).